by Susan Barreto | Aug 14, 2022 | News
The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. kicked off last month a $445,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its ethical implications. “Virtuous AI?... 
by Susan Barreto | Aug 14, 2022 | News
A new study from the University of Waterloo in Canada concluded that the growing trend of digital religion among U.S. and Canadian millennials mostly complements rather than substituting in-person participation in organized religion. The study, Digital Religion... 
by Susan Barreto | Aug 14, 2022 | News
Katharine “Katy” Hinman will succeed Jennifer Wiseman, who is stepping down as director of AAAS’ Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion (DoSER). Wiseman is now director emeritus after serving the DoSER Community over 12 years. Hinman had been the program’s... 
by Susan Barreto | Jul 8, 2022 | News
John Slattery has been named director of Duquesne University’s Carl G. Grefenstette Center of Ethics in Science, Technology and Law, where he had been a directing fellow since early 2021. An ethicist, theologian and science historian by training, he has explored the... 
by Susan Barreto | Jul 8, 2022 | News
A new survey conducted by UK think tank Theos and The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion found that roughly 60% of people reject the idea of “scientific immortality,” while 19% are in favor. Perhaps more interestingly, the survey of 5,000 UK adults... 
by Susan Barreto | Jul 8, 2022 | News
Elaine Howard Ecklund, who is well known for her research on perceptions of religion and science, was named director of the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance at Rice University. The move follows more than a decade at the Religion and Public Life Program at...
